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A hidey-hole sandwiched between cellphone, DVD, and jewelry stores features Tibetan delights.

Offbeat arts organization that hosts exhibitions, events, and explorations.

The best B-movies filmed on a shoestring budget were born here.

Cheap pizza and all of your naughty bedroom needs housed in a stunning example of Art Nouveau architecture.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.

A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Unusual books about food and drink abound in this 19th-century New York townhouse.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

A sculptural commentary on capitalism pokes up from the East River.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

A posh members-only club with a literally dramatic history.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

I fought the law and the precinct caved in.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."